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Microsoft accesses OpenAI's top models regardless of where they are trained
“Part of what makes our partnership with OpenAI unique is the fact that we do have access to the best models, frankly, whether they're trained on our infrastructure or anywhere else.”
Guthrie: Microsoft supports OpenAI partnering with other infrastructure providers
“We definitely are building out for open AI. And at the same time, the way our partnership works is we're supportive of others. Participating in that as well.”
Guthrie: Microsoft plans multi-gigawatt expansion with subsequent Wisconsin datacenters
“Right next to that data center, we're building another data center.
And so those thousands of people that have been working on the first Fairwater data center we just announced are now going to be starting work on the second one.
and then after the second one…”
Microsoft uses idle nighttime inference capacity for global AI post-training
“What's nice about post training is that you don't have to do it in one large data center in one location. And so part of the technique that we've been focused on is how do we take this inferencing capacity around the world? And a lot of it is idle at night as …”
Guthrie: Azure Revenue Growth Reflects Active Consumption, Not Forward Bookings
“Ultimately the Azure business is you know, we get paid based on consumption. It is, it's a consumption based business. Meaning if people aren't actually. Running something, we don't get paid. It's not like they're pre buying a ton of stuff. You know, we recogn…”